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Technically, as Baptists embracing “Separation of Church and State” (one of those distinctive thingies) … should we not be looking to ANY P.O.T.U.S. (including Trump) to do nothing for “evangelicals” except keep the hands of the Executive Branch off matters of religion in order that the CHURCH...

I think we should move to modern Fortified Wines to discourage children taking communion as a snack. ;) The base for Port is made like any other wine. Grapes are grown, pressed and fermented with yeast, which converts the wine’s natural sugars into alcohol. In the production of fortified wine...

Just in case anyone wanted to read it in context: Deuteronomy 14:22-27 [NASB] 22 "You shall certainly tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes from the field every year. 23 "You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the...

Ancient Beers (grain) and Wines (fruit) ran a wide range of alcohol content from modern Beer/Wine at the high end to very watered down mixtures with strange additives for flavor. It was the Water/Soda/Sport Drink of its day.

Eph 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), GOD made us alive. GOD DID IT; we did not exercise our free will and choose it ... we were...

As already explained, there is no general prohibition on alcohol. That said, there is another issue to be considered: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 [NKJV] 1 Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2 And if anyone thinks that he...

Should Christians Hold to any form of Theistic Evolution then? Only if they want to burn in hell! [Just kidding.] ;) I find that "Evolution" and "Creationism" is a subject that produces infinitely more heat than light. Evolution has the better "logical argument" and the "Bible" has the...

Like this ... Romans 7:13-25 [NKJV] 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but...

I agree with that interpretation, but I also recognize that I am biased towards that view. [John 6:44 predisposes me to the belief that God MUST initiate salvation.] So in Ephesians 2:1, how can we be certain that "who were dead in trespasses and sins" meant "man cannot come to God as a corpse...

No worries. I just found it funny. ;)

Now wait a minute, accusing me of being “BF” is going too far! That’s just mean and unfair to @Brightfame52. :Cool

Define "action". If I play a tambourine as "worship" (one of the Hebrew words for worship is with musical instruments) is that "an action"? Would that make it "a work"? What about singing or prayer, are those "actions"? Is "repentance" (changing of opinion/thought) an "action"? I will go this...

I disagree with your conclusion. I claim "They believed/disbelieved irrespective of source." You claim "They believed/disbelieved by the power of their free will exclusively." There will be no moving our entrenched positions, so we are best served by simply disagreeing about what it says.

God OWES nobody "grace". Justice only requires that everyone who is punished must be GUILTY of the sins for which they are being punished. Is there anyone condemned to HELL that did not violate God's standard ... the Law which condemns? You really ARE complaining "God is not fair" rather than...

Respectfully, we disagree on the purpose and audience for Romans, so little will be gained by debating that question. Better to "agree to disagree" and move on (thus I ignored your quoted texts from Romans as we have no common hermaneutic to discuss them from). "Free will" requires some...

Romans 9:14-24 [ESV] 14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy...

The OJ trial was vindication of the American Justice System. It proved that Justice does not see "race" ... only the color GREEN. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. - Anatole France

In Ephesians 2:1-3 [ESV]: "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- among whom we all once lived in the passions of our...